i struggled with this question before i got baptised.
what helped you to overcome any doubts?.
Well, I usually do study on my own. Occassionally we might invite someone over for Family Worship Night, but for the most part I study privately. Whether that be with the Insight Books, or using the CD Rom, See the Great Land, etc., you get it.
Wow, talk about obtuse.
at the meeting this week, there was a part about placing our trust in jehovah and not worrying about food and shelter (mat 6:33).
the part was based on the 2013 yearbook p138 and 139 where there were two examples:.
a family went to their convention leaving their chickens unattended for a number of days, worried about if they would survive.
After the meeting, turns out that some wind scared the fishes toward their fishing area and they caught fishes using a basket!
And that's how Bubba Gump shrimp came to be.
very interesting video from futurist james burke.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24331106.
he believes scarcity will be a thing of the past because of nanofabricators (sounds like a replicator for star trek fans).
Humans will all have gills, like Kevin Costner in "Waterworld".
got caught at the supermarket (in between the martini olives and snack crackers ) with several bottles of hard liquor in my basket along with some red licorice by a sister that has known me for years.
still respects me, not knowing that i am in full fade mode, or at least not recognizably knowing.
anyway, when she sees me, her eyes get all big and she heads in my direction, nearly ramming my liquor laden cart with her vegan oriented basket.. "hey sop, how are you doing?
I have never eaten a Dorito taco in a public restroom
That's actually the best place to eat one, especially the new Fiery flavored ones.
got caught at the supermarket (in between the martini olives and snack crackers ) with several bottles of hard liquor in my basket along with some red licorice by a sister that has known me for years.
still respects me, not knowing that i am in full fade mode, or at least not recognizably knowing.
anyway, when she sees me, her eyes get all big and she heads in my direction, nearly ramming my liquor laden cart with her vegan oriented basket.. "hey sop, how are you doing?
It's gonna be great. I just know it is
That's the typical programmed response from a JW regarding any special meeting, or assembly. But when pressed, I doubt her, or any other JW, could articulate exactly what's great or exciting about it.
this is only my second or third post.
my previous posts were under the username piglet.
i couldnt remember my log in details so i have now changed my username, which i feel is more relevant now anyway.
My wife is struggling with the guilt of not believing, but admitted that she never really wanted the religion, and only kept it together all this time by denial and wanting to keep the status quo.
I suspect this is the case with many who are still inside. Congrats on your freedom, as well as your family's.
"with everything that is going on in this world it really is wonderful to be spiritually awake!
the world is groping for answers to solve their problems.
jehovah is revealing to us what is about to happen.
So lift your heads up because your deliverance is near!!
Any day now. It's right around the corner.
does the organization of jehovah's witnesses do any charity work?.
answer from a wt apologist.
http://defendingjehovahswitnesses.blogspot.com/2013/05/does-organization-of-jehovahs-witnesses.html.
And the ONLY needy he fed were those who were his followers!
What a selective and self-serving interpretation of the gospels. When Jesus gave the illustration of the Samaritan helping the Jew, what message was he trying to convey?
I've known a few JWs who will do charity work. But the majority of them will use the new order as a sort of 'get out of jail free card' to avoid anything charitable. The reasoning is that god will fix everything in his own time, so they don't need to do anything now to help others.
i finally got caught up with it on netflix, and now it's ending.. predictions for sunday night's finale?
i find myself not really caring what happens to walt.
but i'm definitely rooting for something good to happen to jesse, anything at all..
My understanding of the last scene was that it was him dying from the gunshot wound.
For some reason I was expecting more sentimentality in the farewell between him and Jesse. But I guess it was more realistic the way it was.
usa, arkansas | man fires gun at a group of jehovah's witnesses.
centerton police arrested a man accused of firing close to 19 rounds at a group of jehovahs witnesses on saturday (sept. 28th).
john baldwin, 35, bonded out on $50,000 sunday morning.. according to a probable cause affidavit, three jehovahs witnesses approached baldwin in his front yard at rainbow farm road and baldwin told them, get your (explicit) off my property, i moved out here to get away from people like you.. the report states the jehovahs witnesses apologized and as they were getting in their car one of them heard get me my 9.. baldwin admitted to firing a gun at three jehovahs witnesses when they drove away from his house, according to the report.. baldwin was booked into benton county jail on felony charges of aggravated assault.. several of baldwins neighbors said he moved to the neighborhood less than a month ago.. kristi tidwell who lives nearby said she was home when police arrived at her neighbors home.. my husband and i were working around the house, we had the blinds open in the back we saw probably seven or eight cop cars pulling in there, tidwell said.
So did he take the magazines or not? The article doesn't say.
